The Phoenix is a mythical animal, and that name predates Mercedes, at least
according to your story...
on 6/3/03 8:22 AM, Ajhsys@aol.com at Ajhsys@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 6/3/03 4:25:49 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> schnittke@mindspring.com writes:
>
>> Those are the rules of the game. The earliest homologated car, somewhere in
>>
>> the world, named for an animal without being a deliberate misspelling
>> (allowances for language differences).
>
> - - - - - - - - - - -
>
> That would be the 1897 Mercedes.
>
> "In 1897, Austrian businessman Emil Jellinek, travelled from his home in
> Nice, France to purchase a car from the Daimler factory in Cannstatt, Germany.
> On
> his return to the French Riviera, his sporting Daimler Phoenix caused such a
> sensation that he decided to enter it into a local touring competition, under
> the name of "Mercedes" after his favourite 9 year old daughter."
>
> People are animals. And so are spiders, BTW. The other options are
> vegetables, minerals, microbes or fungi, and people are none of those. Well,
> I have
> met some people who are close to being fungi, and some who are couch potatoes.
>
> Allen Hefner
> Phila. Region SCCA Rally Steward
> '77 MG Midget (#51 FSP)
> '75 MG Midget (The Project)
> '99 Ford Contour SE Sport (24v V6)
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